OpenContent Web Services

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OpenContent Web Services provides a high performance, platform independent Web Services layer for Alfresco, Documentum, and Hadoop. OpenContent Web Services is written in Java and accessible via REST endpoints.

OpenContent Web Services: Separating the Application from the Software

Many organizations have custom web applications built to meet their diverse needs. Maintaining these applications during an upgrade or a software platform change can be challenging. OpenContent Web Services serves as a layer of abstraction between your ECM solution and your end-user application, greatly simplifying development efforts, upgrades and even allowing for back-end software to be swapped without impacting the user!

OpenContent Web Services provides the following benefits:

Simplified system upgrades
Easy enabling of repository communication on existing applications
Simplified development efforts
Isolation of repository specific interface components
Flexibility and reuse opportunities

OpenContent Web Services API

The latest OpenContent API documentation is available using the links below:

OpenContent REST API

OpenContent API

OpenContent Management Suite – Fall 2018 Release
November 7, 2018
TSG is happy to announce the Fall 2018 release of the OpenContent Management Suite (OCMS)! This release, version 3.1, follows our new product release Spring/Fall cadence that we have started this year. For this post, we will take a look at some of the notable enhancements included in the 3.1 release. New Features Notable new Source
Alfresco – ADF and OpenContent Comparison- REST Web Services
July 19, 2018
Earlier this year we wrote about comparing Alfresco Share to OpenContent Management Suite. As part of that comparison series, we mentioned that Share has garnered some concerned attention from Alfresco customers this year when Alfresco announced that Share would be deprecated in future. In moving away from Share, Alfresco has been heavily promoting their Application Development Framework (ADF) as Source
Alfresco Performance – Making Property Queries Faster
May 7, 2018
Recently TSG has assisted multiple clients with unique scenarios to make Alfresco queries more efficient. Like a good auto mechanic that has learned tips and tricks for getting better performance from a car without sacrificing quality, TSG has recently developed performance improvements for Alfresco in OpenContent to address clients’ needs. This post will summarize the Source
Alfresco – Adding the ability to query on very large data sets
January 30, 2018
During a recent migration from an on-premise Documentum system to Alfresco on Amazon Web Services, a client wanted to check the target repository for document counts and other pertinent information to ensure that the migration executed smoothly. For example, a client may want to query to know “how many documents of type X are in the Source
Hadoop Web Service REST API for Enterprise Content Management using TSG's OpenContent
April 20, 2015
Many of our ECM clients often develop their own Web Services layer to isolate their applications from the back-end repository as well as provide a vehicle to add in their own services to talk to other non-ECM systems. OpenContent was developed as part of our Documentum practice to give clients a standard web services architecture Source

AWS with DynamoDB for Content Management – Reference Architecture & Cost Estimate November 8, 2019
TSG has recently been working with multiple clients who are considering whether to deploy their Content Management platform in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud instead of on premise. The discussion typically boils down to “how much would it cost for me to deploy this in the cloud vs procuring hardware and software licenses?” This […]
Gartner Content Services Platform (CSP) Magic Quadrant 2019 – Where is the Vision? November 5, 2019
Gartner posted their annual review this past week. With the addition of two new long-time ECM/CSP analysts, we were hoping that this year’s analysis would be more on point than past years, but found it rather predictable. This post will discuss our thoughts on the 2019 analysis with a focus on CSP Vision. Gartner Content […]